headline news an investigation into a deadly chemical incident in syria stalls as rusher offers its own resolution in response to blocking washington's proposals. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who will weigh this unreliable evidence came from. the house of cards. verifying opinions new twitter rules see some conservative comments infused from the platform. the f.b.i. reveals a rise in hate crime in the u.s. as the media is quick to link the trend with the election of donald trump we look at whether that race and give the full picture also this hour. remarkable story of survival we meet a three year old girl rescued from

a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia on wednesday. morning at nine here in moscow i want to welcome to the news from r.t. international first off for you this morning investigations into chemical weapons incidents in syria have stalled russia's veto to draft a u.s. resolution at the u.n. on extending the work of a joint probe into a deadly chemical incident in syria earlier this year. russia has acted to obstruct these investigations russia is being blamed for everything as usual russia has helped to bury the truth allegedly all trying to disparage our country russia has played games with the new aggression is not playing games you are trying to play games with us russia wants a mechanism but not an independent one we've refused to protest against this blatant unprofessionalism russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism to

prove also those who voted against russia's draft resolution are responsible for the fact that the joint investigative mechanism to stop operating. tensions grew after the joint commission accused the syrian government for the sarin gas attack in its second report released in october at the time russia question the credibility for a number of reasons one of the key concerns moscow had was with the reliability of the samples those experts didn't visit the site and receive data through third parties they were also question marks over what could have happened to the samples that were transported out of syria in response russia offered its own draft resolution alongside the us one both suggest extending the investigative teams mandate russia called for a six month period or the us wanted a two year extension washington also said the previous probe was conducted in an appropriate manner moscow believes the methods need to be reviewed and the attack site revisited artie's colored morgan has more on the latest un security council vote. the meeting began with the united states putting forward

a resolution to extend the work of the joint investigative mechanism for russia blocked it as a permanent member of the security council we then heard from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and she was not happy with russia's move russia has acted to obstruct these investigations many times but today it strikes a deep glow russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council later in the meeting russia and bolivia were able to put forward a resolution that would have extended the work of the joint investigative mechanism but restricted it and urged it to operate in what they called a more reliant and scientific manner and you would you know. this pseudo investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who will win this unreliable evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards based on this the joint mechanism was brave enough to accuse the

whole syrian government in such a way as chief sacrificed their own reputation and wrote their names in the history of speculation around syria nevertheless we want to say this joint investigation. this resolution was voted down at the council it was blocked by the united states the u.n. security council meeting concluded with the investigation of the joint investigative mechanism of the o.p.c. w the investigation into chemical weapons in syria going to expire well russia wasn't alone on this at the u.n. bolivia was the only country to vote against the draft resolution of the security council alongside russia china and egypt abstained and the bolivian u.n. ambassador spoke exclusively to r.t. after the vote. we wanted to get a resolution because that resolution didn't represent the what we need for joining us. mechanism to to do our position is that there should be an independent impartial professional technical investigation of what happened there

the report that the g.m. has issued a few weeks ago. and it has been. criticised by many members of the council we really believe that the investigation should be done in c. two so if we talk about the attack the leader of the late start the in. saw the g.m. the joint investigation mechanism a should go to that place and to collect evidence in order to have a more transparent independent and complete investigation of their difference different approaches to that but i think there's a common ground the common ground is that there should be investigations under one is that commit these kind of war crimes should be held accountable if the nations there are around the table the one of the security council are united it means that there should be compromise the issue of the should engage in negotiation this should try to accommodate the interests of. all of them. we talk to the

author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq and he believes that the chemical probe failed to take an impartial look at all the available evidence. clearly this this is not you know this is know what the world expects of the p c w or of the u.n. security council when you know you know when when these. you know when the world signs an international treaty and establishes an agency to investigate an incident like this. we expect to be able to to rely on it took to conduct its investigations with integrity and to hear from. experts from all sides and from different or all points of view and this clearly didn't happen. no longer just checking if you're

a real person but also judging your views it's all part of new guidelines being laid down now by twitter and it's resulted in a number of people being blocked from the site only boy good takes a closer look at the updated rules. up until this week verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that a user's account is genuine so if you take the account air don't all trump the blue tick here to notice that yes these really are the words of the u.s. president it's a bit like a certificate of authenticity for a design a handbag or a hologram stick on the back of a box containing a computer game and high profile users like trump might have hundreds of fake and power in the accounts hence the blue tick but twitter says that somewhere along the line this verification became known as an endorsement so they started

taking the blue tick away the blue tick purge started after twitter was criticized for verifying the account of this man jason kessler the organizer of the deadly white nationalist rally in charlottesville an organist eventually twitter came up with an extensive list of the new guidelines the reasons for removing the symbol include intentionally misleading people promoting violence inciting harassment and the list goes on nearly de take to uses include tommy robinson the former leader of the u.k.'s english defense league and white supremacist richard spencer ordinary twitter users have expressed confusion over the new policy.

and what about accounts like these mohammed al a reef a conservative sunni muslim cleric from saudi arabia banned from the u.k. in twenty fourteen his blue tick remains intact twitter says it's conducting a sweeping review of its verified accounts and it's possible that accounts like this may not have come up for review yet but even before the rethink twitter had been criticized for refusing to verify certain accounts that of wiki leaks editor julian assange for example or project veritas founder james o'keefe both journalists with anti establishment views twitter didn't answer artie's request for

more information regarding its policy review in recent months twitter has faced mounting criticism for failing to combat it. and hate speech it's not clear how making itself the arbiter of right and wrong with a seal of approval is going to fix that boyko r t london we've all tried to clarify its moves we get to hear anything us republican party activist john griffin says the firm stifling debate on issues that matter to people. so the idea of you know d. verifying twitter accounts on the basis of hate is is more to me of a of a symbolic gesture towards preventing dialogue leads leads to more hateful discourse i think that what's being done is being done primarily because of top down political pressure to try to centrally silence some discussion but the the

accounts that have been that have been blocked for hate speech frankly i don't think anyone has a problem with blocking them but the idea that this could creep into something where one side has an unfair advantage in most political discussions that's certainly a question that i think needs to be asked and looked at honestly. facebook's also been making headlines for its new tool called trust indicators it's aimed at flagging up fake news on the site distinguishing between trustworthy publishers and the rest the tools designed to disclose information about the ownership structure of media outlets would also looks into editorial policy in fact checking ability reviewing headlines in articles but it's actually up to the publishers themselves to provide information we had from a political activist who believes facebook is doing a disservice to its clients. facebook has the right to put whatever indicators it once but in doing so it's currently doing a major disservice to its clients it is essentially misleading them

because it's basing its trust indicators on the completely flawed idea that what most of the us mainstream media is reporting is basically true so by putting these indicators it is essentially giving a incorrectly high level of trust facebook is a sort of unscientifically assuming that the currently accepted mainstream media is also trustworthy it is not trustworthy and so allowing these people that they've assumed before even beginning any kind of real review or any kind of real experimentation that they are trustworthy and then deciding to let them show that they're trustworthy by basically saying that is completely backwards. the french president's far reaching labor reform so thousands protest overnight in several cities shot to do bensky was at the demonstrations in paris. well what we have of thousands of people who have decided to join this small watch which was set up by

the trade unions some of the three biggest trade unions in france called the no members for a day of national action what we're finding from people is that they're incredibly angry about what they describe as being the liberal reforms of missed the mark on that mr merkel has made changes to the code to define the term via this is the working code in france but just want to bring you up to date with some of the latest that we've seen a nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest trying to break and smash what they're using around them is not just rocks on the street but it's when you take a look down here these are the great they're pulling up from around the trees and they've actually been trying to use those to ram into the shops to cool some of this damage this is a small select group of people but as you can see the great still in the shop door

here where they attacked in fact that she went in and asked all the customers to leave before they attack the shop but this is what we're seeing along this street now what we saw was them smashing up buildings like banks building societies and places that rent apartments here in paris and it was seemed to be very targeted very angry stopping the crowds and in fact when they saw that we were trying to film that she broke to our camera and frightened us and said you know you're not allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about the police being able to work out what their identity is well apart from that we've been speaking to some of the protesters about what this protest was really about you can see they're all good at this all the things that the way mccomb passed the law by executive order in the track of democracy one that wasn't going to happen where very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights. markram wants to liberalize tomatoes and destroy all the security of workers he

wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we are here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers. the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code to divide and the fact that although my point has signed this and given his approval it still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by showing how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get parliamentarians in france to change their mind. the f.b.i. and the media of god different ideas of why there's a spike in hate crime in the united states while walking through that after the break. going to visit security office side all the security to your own someone when the people who attack. they don't want to be killed know

when there's a guy with tackles a woman who have decided. is much more difficult to do it to do you know. people using markets to wage war against country a country individual to individual and we saw in greece when goldman sachs and their buddies decided to tear down that country to rip it for billions of dollars of the profits john paulson we got goldman sachs and now it's spilling over into the crypto world and the geopolitical world that's happening.

come back the crime is usually associated with attacks against minority groups a report into the problem in the us suggesting it's very much on the rise. in the recent f.b.i. report suggests a spike in hate related incidents and twenty sixteen and many media outlets have been quick to link it with the u.s. president's strong rhetoric so american takes a closer look next at the cause and effect behind the numbers. a spike in hate crimes in the u.s. is all over the headlines after the release of the latest f.b.i. stats what we've seen since present trouble got in office is a rise in hate crimes and hate crimes are on the rise across the u.s. after the election and since the one hate crimes arising since trench victory america has been grappling with a reported rise in hate crimes of hate crimes have reportedly been on the rise

across the nation many outlets chose to present the figures as confirmation of reports that blame the rise on racial violence on donald trump's campaign and then there's the southern poverty law center front and center against the rise of hate crimes under trump now they claim a five year high is trump towards the presidency and that was indeed the case let's zoom out so there was an increase from two thousand and fifteen to two thousand and sixteen by over two hundred cases but that's far from a peak now two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and fifteen way before trump kicked off his controversial campaign was actually a third higher let's zoom out some more seventeen years ago during the bush administration over nine thousand hate crimes were registered in two thousand and one alone putting last year's figures firmly in the shade of the mainstream media in the united states do not like donald trump and they've painted a very false narrative have him talking about how he will increase animosity

between ethnic and racial groups the united states does not happen they talked about how he is colluded with the russian government they have provided no up until now still no proof of that and they have been much greater controversies and they've they've completely ignored them to break it down further according to the f.b.i. is data the highest spike in hate crimes was actually anti white crime well i mean this statistics don't bear that out. in two thousand and sixteen the number of hate crimes ticked up very slightly but it's significant if. statistically insignificant and donald trump at all even if i was only president i mean i was only the president elect. of the past for the last two months or twenty six the while the rise in hate crimes is surely a present and grave issue but a quick look at the bigger picture might just put your mind at ease samir khan r.t.e. . investigators are trying to establish why

a light aircraft crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people however the incredible story of one girl who just three years old in the sole survivor has captured hearts worldwide who. were. in the same feelings a crucial to go with it was from the line of. the embassy both came to you when you .

realized you know the american. next israel's top military official says his country is willing to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia those remarks could further complicate not only an ongoing standoff between tehran and riyadh but also internal affairs within saudi arabia the saudi picks up the story. over the past ten or fifteen years there's been a feeling amongst those in tel aviv and riyadh that they have a shared interest in pushing back iranian influence in the region but over the last year or two it's becoming more and more obvious and these latest comments by the israeli military's chief of staff essentially saying and admitting that israel and saudi arabia are ready to exchange information and share intelligence on iran and

its allies in the region and it's thought that this is something which has been. perhaps to boo in the past something which saudi leaders haven't been able to make the case to their own populations but now it feel more comfortable to do so and it appears the rule of the middle east is that my enemy's enemy is my friend so those two countries increasing very cooperation in order to push back what they say is a rainy and expansionism in the region now of course the situation here in lebanon has been somewhat more tense over the last couple of weeks we've seen that resignation by the lebanese prime minister saad hariri live on television from riyadh from saudi arabia here knows that resignation and many of the political actors in this country the hezbollah political party even the president michel aoun not accepting that resignation because they say according to the lebanese

constitution it needs to be made in person and sad hariri hasn't returned to lebanon since he made that announcement leading to some speculation that he has perhaps not been returned against his own free will well over the last day or two we've seen an invitation being extended by the french president emmanuel macron the french leader and he has said that saad hariri is welcome to come and visit him there are many political analysts both inside lebanon and outside who say that that could be the first. stepped on the rubble in this political deadlock and seeing him return to the country and what other analysts say has been the failure of saudi arabia to try to divide the lebanese political establishment. already has long been a supporter of former prime minister hariri whereas the lebanese president is a known ally of hezbollah are a militant group and a political party backed by iran political science professor collin cavell says the

i.d.f. statement is a move to form a new coalition against iran this is the first open cooperation public collaboration and acknowledgement that there is a strong relationship between israel and saudi arabia and you can assure you that so you know. there's a group this is a president what this confirms is a dry on earth alliance between israel saudi arabia. they remain among so they could contain iran. saying in the region humanitarian groups are urgently calling for lifesaving supplies to be allowed into yemen saudi arabia's been fighting who see rebels and twenty fifteen with yemen placed under blockade and that's triggered a serious crisis with millions of people starving and in dire need of medicine.

all this has left saudi arabia's main ally questioning its role in the yemen conflict the u.s. house of representatives agreed on monday to back out of supporting the saudi led coalition and a non-binding resolution that acknowledges that washington's goal is to defeat al

qaida and supporting riyadh in yemen contradicts that target congress also called on double trump to pull out any armed forces that the u.s. has in yemen this all horror and i'm a story it's hard to see it is caused in part by our decision to facilitate a bombing campaign that is murdering children. well since the start of the war in march twenty fifteen the united states has provided saudi arabia and its allies in yemen with intelligence information and military equipment the support also included refueling flights for coalition warplanes as i mentioned earlier america's involvement was originally intended to fight terrorist organizations however who think rebels remain the main target of saudi attacks and that's a group not recognized as terrorist investigative journalist dave lindorff says u.s. officials are beginning to change their minds on the situation in yemen. for seeing that may be the the images coming out and maybe the world opinion that's starting

to shift on yemen is leading these people in the in the congress to in the senate to look at this and say do we really want to get dragged into their. war it's a shift there is a schneck it's been used abused since it was passed practically which goes all the way back to two thousand and one if they're waking up to the idea that they can't just keep stretching the boundaries of this two thousand and one authorization for use of military force. you know they say they should do that but they may you know come up with new acts to do the same thing. well that's half an hour will be backed up that you're getting just a half an hour standby for larry king he's next on i'll take.

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he joins us from lake jackson texas a lot of things to cover today but first your sons and the polies would turn to capitol hill and to suffering multiple injuries during an attack in his yard what was that all about and how was he doing. he's doing fine i he still aching and i don't know whether he should be back in washington but he's managing oh take a but you know i don't know much more than what i read in the papers i've talked with him back but i think he's a little bit befuddled be fuddled as well because he's not quite sure the motivations and right now he's concentrating on getting better rather than trying to figure out what might have been in this person's mind it does seem awfully strange to everybody who's thought about it that he has no idea why he was attacked . and he really doesn't and. i i sometimes and i shouldn't even get involved in this but sometimes you wonder about.